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The only ones who haven't had any visions or hallucinations seem to be:

Humans:

Karl Agathon
Tom Zarek (OK, I guess he belongs here.)

Cylons:

Ellen Tigh
Aaron Doral
John Cavil
Simon

I think that's kinda interesting when you think about it. In fact, Cavil re-engineered himself to not even dream so he couldn't have any visions. Ellen may have even have had visions when she was working on the resurrection project back on Earth. She mentioned that they had advanced warning of the apocalypse. Of course, it might just be an artifact of RDM's style of writing too.

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I don't think Gaeta's phantom pain counts. More of a real phenomenon. And I thought that Lee's "drowning" was more metaphorical than a literal hallucination in Resurrection Ship II. But you're right in pointing out how expansive these character's "virtual" lives are (or however you'd like to put it).

For that matter, Adama's encounters with his wife felt to me to be more of a storytelling device than an actual hallucination. It played out as simply a depiction of the way we carry the people that we loved around with us. Adama is very much haunted by the memory of their disastrous marriage and so, in the episode, this was depicted visually. I don't really interpret it as a vision at all, I'd put it in a similar category to Lee and drowning.

As far as human characters go, I'm sure it doesn't really count to list a minor character like this, but I'm going to put Doc Cottle out there as one of the one's who hasn't experienced anything just because, well, I love his attitude towards all the crazy events and mythology around him. But, again, we should probably keep it to the major players, since there is a whole fleet out there that, I assume, hasn't had visions.

Gaeta's pain was real, whether physically driven or psychologically. Lee's drowning scene was caused by lack of oxygen combined with the surreal sensation of weighlessness. Neither of these are "visions". And Adama talking to his wife in his head was supposed to be just that, in his head, only also on camera for us to see. It wasnt hallucinated, just imagined.

But yeah, you do have a point.

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I agree that it might be important to clariffy between actual visions and everything else. Just looking through your list, I don't think Adama, Lee, Gaeta, and Romo count. If you're just talking about seeing anything in general, I would still take down the first 3 I listed.

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